YOUR HOSTS:
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menu feature ... It imported the Lido
de Paris from France ... which was
acclaimed by critics as a more spectac-
ular version than the Paris original.
Lido had a 31 -year run at the Stardust
Hotel ... It ,,vas replaced in 1991 with
the spectacular "Enter the Night."
The success of Lido encouraged
other resorts to adopt a production
show policy.
The Dunes, which disappeared from
the skyline in a fiery, dusty staged
implosion in 1993, engaged Minsky's
Follies in 1957, the first time that top-
less showgirls debuted on the Las
Vegas Strip.
Tropicana Hotel bought the
American rights ro the spectacular
Folies Bergere ... It remains a show-
room favorite ro this day ... Backstage
tours are a hot Las Vegas attraction.
During the `50s and '60s, casino
lounges also provided continuous
entertainment from dusk to dawn, at
no charge to the customer except the
cost of a drink ... These lounges
which became major entertainment
attractions in their own right, had
names like Don Rickles, Buddy
Hackett, Shecky Greene, Alan King,
Louis Prima and Keely Smith, Joe
Williams, Buddy Greco, etc.
I stayed at the Rio Hotel and
Casino, off the Strip, this time ... My
first visit there ... Since son Scott was
coming in to meet me, the Rio seemed
to be the place because its accommo-
dations are all supposedly suites.
If your idea of a suite is separate
rooms of privacy, it differs with that of
the Rio ... It's conception, a large
room with two large beds, a TV, table
and sectional sofa ... No walls in
between.
But it is a decent place to stay, even
though the food is just so-so, except
for Napa, with Chef Jean-Louis
Palladin ... Service is adequate aside
from the incoming reception desk,
where young kids need more training
... Entertainment is everywhere ...
much of it quite good.
It's Club Rio is always packed closer
than sardines ... The music is continu-
ous, Wednesday through Saturday,
from 10:30 p.m. all night long, and
you either stop on your own or maybe
eventually drop ... The young folks
who go there from everywhere in Las
Vegas, residents and visitors, are amid
flashing lights galore in rhythm with
the frantic beats and 12 giant TV
screens on two sides of the huge sector
... $10 men, $5 women ... Las Vegas
gals free.
Seems like yesterday when Lance
Burton was a quiet specialty act in
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